This study aims at reducing stress which married immigrant women suffer, helping them settling into the life in Korea as a member of a society and using the study as a basic data for enhancing satisfaction on living by understanding a countermeasure f...
This study aims at reducing stress which married immigrant women suffer, helping them settling into the life in Korea as a member of a society and using the study as a basic data for enhancing satisfaction on living by understanding a countermeasure for, or a way for coping with the life which married immigrant women perceive during their married life and social support and grasping the influence which is associated with the satisfaction on living.
The conclusion of the study is as follows:
First, the level of using the countermeasure by the subjects was 3.23 and they used a moderate way, relatively using a short-term countermeasure of 3.31 a lot. The long-term countermeasure was found to be relatively small. The satisfaction on living of the subjects was 3.49, the middle level, which showed that they did not feel a big complain about their life.
In social support sector, the support was 3.33, the intensity of which was somewhere between "Moderate" and "Considerably higher" and the respondents were found to feel social support for them. More specifically, the respondents felt a relatively higher support in emotional support (3.52). The individuals who gave the largest help to married immigrant women were their husbands, followed by their parents-in-law(mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law and their husbands' family members) and their home country friends in order. Those people's social support raised a satisfaction on living. The sector which married immigrant women felt a lower support in was material support(3.30).
Second, in the level of using a countermeasure according to nationality, there was a significant difference between the overall countermeasure and short-term countermeasure. In satisfaction on living, there was a significant difference. In the level of using a countermeasure according to a spouse relation, the study showed a significant difference in satisfaction on living in a short-term countermeasure. In satisfaction on living, I found a significant difference. That is, a group of "the relation between husband and wife is pretty much good" was using a factor of "short-term countermeasure" and satisfaction on living was higher, too. In social support depending on a spouse relation, or a relation between husband and wife, there was a significant difference in emotional support: a group of "the relation between husband and wife is pretty much good" were given a spouse's emotional support a lot. With regard to social support depending on a spouse's job, a significant difference was shown in the overall support, material support and evaluation support. In social support according to residence period, there was a significant difference in emotional support: the group of "1-2 year or less in residence period" was found to receive the largest emotional support before an adaption to life in Korea. In social support depending on age of the subjects, I found a significant difference in overall support and emotional support. For the level of using a countermeasure according to communications, there was a significant difference in the long-term countermeasure. When mutual communications were brisk, the subjects used a long-term countermeasure. In satisfaction on living according to communications, there was also a signifiant difference. Concerning a countermeasure depending on a school background of the subjects, there was a significant difference in overall countermeasure and long-term countermeasure. In social support according to a school background of the subjects, I found a signifiant difference in emotional support and evaluation support.
Third, in the analysis of the corelation among satisfaction on living, social support and countermeasures, both social support and countermeasures had a significant corelation with satisfaction on living. The overall support showed the highest corelation with satisfaction on living, while the short-term countermeasure showed the lowest corelation with satisfaction on living. In the corelation between countermeasures and social support, there was a high corelation in these all and in the corelation between a short-term countermeasure and a long-term countermeasure, there was a negative(-) corelation. In the corelation between social support and countermeasures, there was a positive(+) corelation between a long-term countermeasure and informational support, material support and evaluation support while there was a positive(+) corelation between a short-term countermeasure and evaluation support.
Fourth, in the social support and countermeasures which have an influence on satisfaction on living, emotional support(β=.289) and evaluation support (β=.271) were found to have a significant influence. In the significant variables which have an influence on satisfaction on living of the subjects, emotional support showed the largest influence, followed by evaluation support.